GRC news from FierceSarbox

What to make of the governance, risk and compliance software market? Well, it has attracted a host of big players, notably SAP and Oracle, as well as a host of increasingly well-known smaller Read more...

AMR Research projects spending on government, risk and compliance applications and services will top $32.1 billion in 2008, up 7.4 percent from 2007. In 2009, growth is projected at 7 percent. In a Read more...

We've discussed the idea that compliance initiatives can yield strategic benefits, if done right. A new survey from AMR Research seems to suggest that more companies are getting on board with this Read more...

There are a whole lot of vendors out there hawking compliance-related products. The GRC market seems to be faring decently, even at a time when the technology spend at many companies is coming under Read more...

Most people assume that so-called GRC software--governance, risk and compliance--will continue to gather steam, as big boys like Oracle and SAP continue their marketing. It makes sense to automate Read more...

The big boys--Oracle, IBM and SAP--are certainly aware of the demand for compliance-driven software solutions. The solutions span the entire business market, and Oracle's idea is to make this Read more...

What prompted IBM to pay about 5 times Cognos' annual revenue and nearly 40 times its most recent net earnings? Well, you can chalk some of it up to Sarbanes Oxley. IBM has been aggressively pursuing Read more...

Government, Risk and Compliance vendors have slowly been making headway in making their case to big companies. The Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) has released its 2007 Governance, Risk and Read more...

Oracle is a great example of how big IT vendors have ridden the compliance wave. Clearly, Oracle along with IBM and others sense a certain demand out there, which frankly would be hard to miss. Read more...

These days, C-level recruiters say chief information officers are taking on new responsibilities that require them to think like a business-type more so than a systems-type. To some degree this is Read more...